Beaten
שָׁחוּטStrong’s H7820shachat (sha-chat)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shachat is the Hebrew word usually translated “beaten”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.”
Meaning
- To beat, hammer(Qal) beaten (participle)
- (TWOT) to kill, slaughter
How it's translated
- beaten 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 10:17And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
- 2 Chronicles 9:15And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.
- 2 Chronicles 9:16And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁחוּט shachat · beaten
1) to beat, hammer 1a) (Qal) beaten (participle) 2) (TWOT) to kill, slaughter
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beaten” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BE'ATEN, participle passive
Struck; dashed against; pressed or laid down; hammered; pounded; vanquished; make smooth by treading; worn by use; tracked.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.